Re: Users that fink adds to the system
Scott Hannahs via Fink-users <[email protected]>
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> On Apr 5, 2022, at 05:58, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 4/4/22 10:58 AM, Jonas S wrote: >> Hello, >> I use the fast user switch, i.e. I get a little icon in the menu bar where I can select to change to some other user than my normal user. >> System Preferences > Users & Groups > Log in > Show the meny for fast user switching as [symbol]. >> In that menu I have since some time "Game Files Owner", ”messagebus (dbus) daemon,,,” and ”Service Discovery Daemon”. Did fink add any of these? >> Or could it be brew.sh that has installed them? >> Any ideas on not have them showing up in the menu? How to figure out who added them and how to remove them if not needed? They are not listed in the list in System Preferences > Users & Groups. >> MacOS 12.3, Montery >> Fink 0.45.2 (installed when the current OS was till supported and then I never updated it, I could still update packages until about two years ago or something like that). > > Yes, that's something that's new with macOS12. Fink created users now show up in the fast user switching menu. Those 3 are Fink created. We haven't yet found what changed with macOS12 to cause this. I think that there is a new keyword pair for the accounts. “IsHidden 1” should do it using dscl. https://www.tecklyfe.com/how-to-hide-user-accounts-from-macos-login-screen/ <https://www.tecklyfe.com/how-to-hide-user-accounts-from-macos-login-screen/> I think it also hides the accounts from FUS. -sth _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/fink-users/ Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users